Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread
From: david
Date: Wed Aug 04 2010 - 19:25:40 EST
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
2010/8/4 <david@xxxxxxx>:
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:51:07PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Wednesday, August 04, 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
No! And that's precisely the issue. Android's existing behaviour could
be entirely implemented in the form of binary that manually triggers
suspend when (a) the screen is off and (b) no userspace applications
have indicated that the system shouldn't sleep, except for the wakeup
event race. Imagine the following:
1) The policy timeout is about to expire. No applications are holding
wakelocks. The system will suspend providing nothing takes a wakelock.
2) A network packet arrives indicating an incoming SIP call
3) The VOIP application takes a wakelock and prevents the phone from
suspending while the call is in progress
What stops the system going to sleep between (2) and (3)? cgroups
don't,
because the voip app is an otherwise untrusted application that you've
just told the scheduler to ignore.
I _think_ you can use the just-merged /sys/power/wakeup_count mechanism
to
avoid the race (if pm_wakeup_event() is called at 2)).
Yes, I think that solves the problem. The only question then is whether
it's preferable to use cgroups or suspend fully, which is pretty much up
to the implementation. In other words, is there a reason we're still
having this conversation? :) It'd be good to have some feedback from
Google as to whether this satisfies their functional requirements.
the proposal that I nade was not to use cgroups to freeze some processes
and
not others, but to use cgroups to decide to ignore some processes when
deciding if the system is idle, stop everything or nothing. cgroups are
just
a way of easily grouping processes (and their children) into different
groups.
That does not avoid the dependency problem. A process may be waiting
on a resource that a process you ignore owns. I you ignore the process
that owns the resource and enter idle when it is ready to run (or
waiting on a timer), you are still effectively blocking the other
process.
and if you don't have a wakelock the same thing will happen. If you expect
Not the same thing. If you don't hold a wakelock the entire system
will suspend and when it wakes up it continues where it left off.
Timeout still have time left before they expire.
in what I'm proposing, if the 'privilaged/trusted" processes are idle long
enough the entire system will suspend, and when it wakes up everything
will continue to process normally
the process to take a while you can set a timeout to wake up every 30
seconds or so and wait again, this would be enough to prevent you from going
I don't think polling is an acceptable solution to this problem. You
user space code know needs to know what "idle" timeout you have
selected so it can choose a faster poll rate. When is it safe to stop
polling?
I think the timeouts are of such an order of magnatude that the polling
can be infrequent enough to not be a significant amount of load, but be
faster than any timeout
to sleep (or am I misunderstanding how long before you go into suspend
without a wakelock set, see my other e-mail for the full question)
We suspend as soon as no wakelocks are held. There is no delay.
So, if I have a bookreader app that is not allowed to get the wakelock,
and nothing else is running, the system will suspend immediatly after I
click a button to go to the next page? it will not stay awake to give me a
chance to read the page at all?
how can any application run without wakelock privilages?
David Lang